Ralph Adams Cram, American Medievalist

“Following in the footsteps of Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900, Douglass Shand-Tucci’s portrait of Ralph Adams Cram’s early years, this volume tells the story of Cram’s later career as one of America’s leading cultural figures and most accomplished architects” “Shand-Tucci traces the influence on Cram of such disparate figures as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Phillip Brooks, Henry Adams, and Ayn Rand. He divides Cram’s career into four lifelong “quests”: medieval, modernist, American, and ecumenical. Some quests may have failed, but in each he left a considerable legacy, ultimately transforming the visual image of American Christianity in the twentieth century.” Illustrated with over 130 photographs and drawings and eight pages of color plates, Ralph Adams Cram can be read on its own or in conjunction with Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900.